Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:24:29 +0900
Subject: Re: Old revised version, and a new one
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To: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>
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On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 05:29 PM, Dave Page wrote:
>> From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:grzm@myrealbox.com]
>> And I was running into problems with column width with words
>> not fitting into the 120px columns defined by the ads. I do
>> think 120px is a little narrow, making it harder to read
>> longer descriptions (due to line breaks) or even using longer
>> words in some cases. What are your thoughts on increasing the
>> left and right borders on the ads to make the columns wider?
>
> Ahh, a sense of d=E9j=E0 vu!!

Well-worn road, eh?

> The problem with increasing the left/right ad borders is that you then=20
> need to do the top/bottom as well or it just looks wrong.
>
> One this I did try previously that I seem to recall I liked but Marc=20
> wasn't so keen on (though maybe not for this reason) was including a=20
> solid title bar just below the header, right the way across.

I was thinking something very similar. You could take the links that=20
are currently banner and make something like a menu bar running beneath=20
the ads, the logotype, and the logo. This would also give us a lot more=20
space for varying length menu terms. I'm probably not the first person=20
to suggest this. Was there a reason why it wasn't implemented? I'll try=20
something like this as well.

Speaking of which, are there originals of the logotype and logo=20
floating around somewhere? I've been keen to clean up some of the=20
pixelation (from jpg compression?), but it might be easier just to=20
recreate them from the originals than spend the time pushing pixels.

Michael